graphics card/processor help!

[Coldfire]

Here you go i7 2600k stock ff14 at 1024x768 yes thats right it cant pull more fps even at that res while the card load is at 10%. Hope you understand it now. If dont well why not try it yrself?

http://imageshack.us/f/221/semttuloebu.jpg/ 1024x768

http://imageshack.us/f/88/semttulo2kg.jpg/ 1920x1080

Weird right? Reason CPU bottleneck.

Resolution only stresses the TMUs but this game usually bottlenecks at the vector-transformation. So lowering the resolution doesn't always mean that the game will run faster. Overclocking the GPU can give a few frames more though.